Latin America & Caribbean | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method. Development relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels. Limitations and exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured. Statistical concept and methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
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The World Bank
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Latin America & Caribbean
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63
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Latin America & Caribbean | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 49.44271088
1971 49.4300499
1972 50.14506149
1973 49.03337097
1974 48.82788086
1975 51.65802002
1976 58.8146286
1977 57.90394974
1978 57.46894836
1979 57.19924927
1980 56.01102066
1981 59.30400848
1982 62.80659103
1983 63.70178986
1984 60.04228973
1985 61.6110611
1986 63.83222961
1987 64.27620697
1988 66.1053772
1989 66.96772003
1990 69.87587738
1991 72.25904083
1992 70.67626953
1993 72.96411896
1994 74.70590973
1995 77.07343292
1996 77.67616272
1997 78.77358246
1998 80.17639923
1999 80.49902344
2000 80.10957336
2001 82.83242798
2002 82.17086792
2003 82.91139984
2004 83.30889893
2005 83.99648285
2006 85.26956177
2007 84.52629852
2008 86.3662796
2009 86.36882019
2010 86.53439331
2011 86.11740112
2012 85.55792999
2013 87.27292633
2014 87.94119263
2015 87.58683014
2016 88.25283813
2017 88.35359955
2018 88.85205078
2019 88.63333893
2020 89.23925018
2021 89.49256897
2022
Latin America & Caribbean | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method. Development relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels. Limitations and exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured. Statistical concept and methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Latin America & Caribbean
Records
63
Source